#personal: research topics
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okay no offense but i’m not a fan of Five finding his “real life” dolores. like, that diva was literally a coping mechanism for him. a tangible reminder that he was so lonely that he made a literal piece of plastic his companion. i think the idea of it is sweet but at the end of the day i think that if Five did find someone romantically it should be someone that makes him feel silly and carefree, not someone that is a fleshy replica of an Apocalyptic Souvenir
#shall i tag tua fandom? fuck it i shall#the umbrella academy#five hargreeves#i don’t rlly remember how young five was when he found her#but either way i want less fics where five and dolores find each other irl and more fics of him being fucking crazy about her in a real way#in researching this topic i asked my boyfriend about what he would do in five’s situation and… well…#he would have done unspeakable things to that literal mannequin#that’s like psychological horror to me i think we should explore that side of their dynamic more#bc yes that’s gross (to me) but saying you’d fuck a mannequin as a joke is one level but fully believing it’s a person is another so like#how did he get there#not embarrassed of tua stuff btw but i AM embarrassed by the mannequin fucking discussion going on in the tags so hello side blog
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just had to give a gentle nudge about research ethics on discord. with an Essek profile pic. I'm still laughing.
#the irony was definitely lost on them but god it was not lost on me#for the record my discord pfp is the shot of him at the greek live show turning to fearne like ?!?!?! about ludinus lmao#anyway. hilarious times.#I have realized in both work and school that. my threshold for research ethics is SO high jfc#me like 'well i have like 600 examples for lit analysis it won't be totally representative but i think it'll be a good start'#normal grad students: this set of surveys from my family friends and classmates is good enough to present at conferences right#[REALLY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER NOISE]#it's fine I'm fine don't worry about it. I'm cool I'm fine#this is not related to this person to be clear it's a previous gripe#love being in research love learning about how most people do research and having to go 'do ANY of you have even COMMON SENSE'#this has gotten off topic. alas.
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i recognize and acknowledge not everyone likes hasanabi. i understand why people disagree with and even dislike him-
however, as war pushes on against Palestine hasan piker’s coverage remains consistent and intelligent. he knows what he’s talking about, does an incredible job of weeding through propaganda and bogus stories and is actively supporting the people of Palestine.
if you struggle to find sources to trust or don’t know where to start when researching/understanding Israel’s apartheid against Palestine i would suggest watching his clips on youtube.
**if you can’t stomach watching him, i have links to the vid he reacts to that are good for understanding what is happening to Palestine.
***please learn so you can support🇵🇸
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#palestine#free palestine#muslim#apartheid#israel#israeli apartheid#hasan piker#hasanabi#has#i personally like him#i don’t agree with him on everything#but he’s incredibly well researched#on this topic and is a good jumping place#Youtube
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#how long ago did i watch pacific rim? i feel like it might have been last year but i finally drew this lmao#sometimes it just takes a while. newt specifically gets under my skin tho bc i think his research interests r kinda similar to mine#at least in a broad sense. but im dealing with cyanobacteria which is less exciting to most ppl lol but any fanfic i read thats like: newt#has 6 phds im like fucking what? what r they in? they have to be literature based right?! when would u have time to independently design.#carry out. write and defend for 6 independent projects in different topics by his age?#what as waste of time. i say as a person who would happily fuck around and collect degrees without ever having to get a real job#idk characters i relate to make me a little unhinged bc i do not like to relate to characters lol#pacific rim#herman gottlieb#newt geiszler#newton geiszler#tw blood#tw gore#also i agree with herman abt the numbers quote. physics is like literally understanding the fabric of the universe so like yeah#also i cant draw hermann and i cant see his face without thinking of owen from torchwood who i hated lol#pacrim
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Officially in the "get stupid" phase of personal statement drafting.
#dubious strategy for convincing people i'm smart maybe but i will admit it's at least very me#which is more than i had before#i'm trying to hit the sweet spot of 'on-topic and related to my research but also actually distinctive and indicative of my personal voice'#not sure i'm keeping this but uh. the situation was getting dire folks. i had to put down something
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alhaitham be winning the idgaf wars until kaveh ‘ the exception ‘ kshahrewar walks in the door and it’s sooo funny
#his wifeguy instincts kick in and it’s like second nature#kaveh wants to do anything and suddenly he’s interested#that’s what happens when ur favorite research topic is a person ig#haikaveh#kavetham
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idk how this would work in the OIAR bc i just feel like they wouldn’t let anyone from outside look at their files, but i think it would be really funny to have like. a college age researcher show up to the og magnus institute or the OIAR who’s like studying the paranormal or folklore or some shit (cue guy with an actual degree in parapsychology which makes martin shit himself when he tries to start conversation HELPP) who’s just like oh hi guys this is my honors project! :) can i look at some spooky stories? 🤗 and the OIAR/MI staff are like NO. DO NOT LOOK INTO THIS ANY FURTHER RUN FOR YOUR LIFE. but i feel like elias would 100% require that they help this person out, bc he’s evil and he’d want a fear to eat them, and like… it’s just funny to imagine like. the staff trying to keep the true nature of the institute/OIAR away from this totally clueless 22/25 year old and feeding them the silliest statements possible that don’t connect at all to throw them off track so this poor kid is confused and hopefully gives up. but also kinda bittersweet imagining them all coming together to protect a stranger from falling into a world they can no longer escape… the old “it’s too late for me but it’s not too late for you” makes my heart hurt
#they interact w kids in the show and old ppl but they never rly interact w teenagers or actually college students#and i feel like i TOTALLY know people who would ask the institute to see their files like. as an undergrad honors thesis#or a phd defense or something#and like. seeing the research get stymied and the poor kid get frustrated would be kind of sad bc i while researching some niche topics#the institute would be like a treasure trove#and info on contemporary supernatural beliefs is kind of hard to find#but like the tma cast especially—who treated each other terribly—having to band together for the common goal of driving the intern out#what if it was a bonding experience. what if they came together about it#but someone curious enough to seek out the magnus institute is already a little doomed#so how could they prevent that person from finding anything real?#the feeling of hopelessness in tma is so pervasive bc the staff can’t escape. but what if someone else could…#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tma podcast#the magnus institute#story ideas
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you ever open a book and start reading and immediately think thaaaat sounds like bullshit
#i decided to start researching for this thing i want to write about beauty/personal appearance in rome (specifically wrt men) and so im#looking for basically. any writing on the topic. and this book is mostly about other periods but has a chapter on the ancient world#but the way he writes about it so far is so generalizing and also based on... nothing/assumptions? from what i can tell?#this is just the intro so ill see what evidence he presents later but... hmmm#but man you have to be so careful using 'logic' or 'common sense' to make historical arguments. when it's done well it's really good but#more usually it's reductive and just... not evidence based
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Will people ever learn that being rude / condescending to people genuinely asking simple questions has never and will not ever be beneficial to activism. It will almost never get people on your side it will always make people dislike you and if people dislike the speaker they will be more likely to dislike the message.
#stupid snake talk#like even if you REALLY don’t want to answer their question#there IS a nice way to say ‘look for the resources yourself’#it’s like literally not hard at all ever to be nice to people who ask a question#especially since often people are not asking because they’re lazy or looking for an easy way to help#but because they see YOU as a resource and person informed in some way on the topic#jus say ‘I’m not the right person to provide this / do not wish to be a second hand source. I suggest you look up [insert key words]’#or even ‘I suggest you do some research yourself because I think it would be better than anything I could say myself’#that’s it..
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After reading the tags on your latest post I was wondering if it would be possible for you to make a brief overview of the iffy tropes/details your sensitivity reader helped you pick up on? Of course it wouldn't replace doing research ourselves, but I'd love to hear about it regardless!
Have not run it by them yet because it is in no fit state for human consumption at this point; the tropes are just from reading their blog + others on Tumblr + general Internet research including the excellent "blind people walk you through normal activities from their perspective" videos on YouTube. But off the top of my head:
Face touching. Where the blind person gropes someone's face to see? Sighted people made that up. I rewrote a chapter in Towards the Sun when I realized that one. Which makes sense, because why would a blind person be any more inclined to run their hands all up in your facial juices. Eww.
Negating blindness with magic and pretty much ignoring the blindness henceforth. Which is why Zuko isn't going to learn to see with firebending. There are very interesting discussions on how Toph herself fits and doesn't fit into this trope; finding them is left as an exercise for the reader.
Token blind character, AKA only having one blind person in the narrative who represents All Blind People. Going to have a few blind NPCs running around, with various levels of sight and accommodations, to thoroughly negate this one.
Being Depressed and/or Overly Inspirational about the blindness. AKA character devotes a large chunk of the story to bemoaning their blindness, with bonus inspirational "overcoming" at the end. Think about how it would feel if the majority of characters like you spent vast word counts hating the thing that makes them like you. And then solving it, in a way you can't, so they don't have to have the tragic fate of Being Like You. ...So Zuko is not getting cured, and he's also not wasting much time wallowing in an angst puddle.
Etc.
Basically, I want this to be a story that low vision folks can read and go "that was fun and less offensive than 70% of actual media representations", and sighted people can go "that was fun and hopefully I internalized some positive things that will make me less likely to grab a blind person's arm and forcibly Help Them Cross The Road, Try To Pet Their Dog (and Get Huffy When Asked to Please Not), or Call People Out On Not Being Blind Because They Don't Fit The Stereotypes".
#I am never going to claim to be an expert on this topic#but I'm pretty sure I can do it better than 70% of writers actually getting paid to write a blind character#which says less about my research skills and more about how media favors sighted-friendly interpretations of blindness#worst story I've come across is the blind actor who didn't get a role playing a blind person#because they came off as too competent at navigating the set#surely no sighted person would believe that this actor was actually blind!#...yep#avatar the last airbender#atla#blind Zuko#no specification necessary Toph#actual low vision folks please feel free to correct anything in this post#or my stories in general#it was reader feedback that got me to fix that Towards the Sun chapter#and it is a far better chapter for it
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his wife was like the Serena Joy of this whole operation; I'm not letting her off the hook(ed rug) either
the fact that there's a guy who made up a bunch of bullshit images of Generic English Colonial North America (you know, an entire 200-year span of history covering several distinct regions) that still incorrectly influence our vision of that period
and his name was Wallace Nutting
just. you can't make this stuff up
#being a victorianist by primary research topic but also interested in the Truth of other periods#sometimes means you want to beat the shit out of a Victwardian person#history#colonial america
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the person who got chosen for that job I REALLY wanted (yes still not over it) is apparently my FRIEND from uni ??? I'm gonna kms fr now
#they talked about the other person having loads more experience but ??? yeah she had a parttime research job I guess#but I was thinking of someone 10+ years older like FUCKKKKK#I hate this stupid life I'm mad at her but not really bc good for her#I do kinda have a feeling I deserve it#which is bad#but I did do my thesis on this actual topic she did it on robots like who gaf#like this was my I'll finally get what I deserve moment and I didn't get it and now I know who actually got it#I'm rotten basically
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Man sometimes it really hits me like it should not be this hard.
#I can’t believe I spent 6 hours writing a five page essay that I’d already done all the reading and research for#I even had a detailed draft/outline that was nearly the full word count#that’s what I started with at 9pm and now it’s 3am and I’m not even done#I guess it makes more sense why I had so much trouble starting even though it was supposedly an easy essay#because apparently it was not easy after all#to be clear this is about a topic I love and enjoy very much#personal#vent#ramblings
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GIRL I LOVE U AND UR WRITING BUT UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DO U MEAN THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTSS
no because no human being is illegal ❤️ listen i get going the legal route and i do advocate for more ways for people to become citizens but i will never villianize someone for trying to better their life. these people left their home often due to gang or political violence and i welcome them with open arms.
#and i certainly do not support deportation#especially mass deportation#the only time i tnink it should happen is when the person committed a crime (not the “crime” of crossing a border)#or when theyre extradited back to their country for a crime there#also undocumented ppl give way more to the economy and country then ehat they “take”#i hope you do some research on this topic#and my inbox or dms are always open to guide you in the right direction#answered#anonymous
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you know i've been doing pretty fine with the process but i need at least some reassurance to tell me that it will work out and that everything is going to pay off and i will be satisfied with my writing
#yes this is about my MA dissertation#i spend at least eight hours per week within two diff days writing and researching#and i know my topic from the back of my head#(of course i do tudor history is why i am doing such and where i am in life now)#but at the same time it's like imposter's syndrome is taking over me again#and i need to stop !!!!! worrying a bit i guess#i think this factors in when you're tackling something you are really passionate about#and if you think you aren't doing well enough about it you're just. meh#but i really wanna make myself proud#personal#maria rambles
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An attempt to not forget about the sketchbook
The doodles are better as always
#traditional art is hard. you'll die doing it#btw personally I'd love to explore gonta's talent more#his research methods. does he take notes or not#what does he feel when he has to kill an insect for scientific reasons#im not really an entomologist but pretty close to it so that topic is oooooh interesting#danganronpa#drv3#gonta gokuhara#also that composition sucks
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